In languages, both e-learning and on-site learning have positive and negative points. E-learning needs only a computer, but effectiveness might be reduced and you will probably miss a great travel to a foreign country. On-site learning avoids technology limits, but you spend time, energy and money arriving to a language school or traveling to a foreign country. Which of this is a better way for learning a language? Is language learning heading to a technology revolution?

E-learning has much potential. I would like to see it employed more in helping to preserve endangered languages. E-learning can help prepare learners for the real conditions they will encounter if they travel to the country where the language of study is spoken. More computers need to be made available to learners in countries where the power grid is unreliable.

That is true Yazid, e-learning permits millions of people to have a access to education. But is quality the same in e-learning? Its undeniable that it has a huge potential, but do you think that language learning may loose something in this case?E-learning is an excellent option also for people who want to continue practicing a language or who don't have time for learning in a traditional way.

In our experience, one of the main problems when teaching Russian language through an e-learnig platform, is that the beginners have problems learning how to write a new alphabet. How to teach them to write well when we are not using a pencil and a paper? Other difficulty is that they must get used to a new keyboard, which makes homework exercices very long to do. Could this reduce the language teaching to a multiple choice answer system?